August 1985 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1985 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record)
• 02 Aug 1985 Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, 137 die
• 03 Aug 1985 Train crash at Flaujac, France: 35 killed
• 04 Aug 1985 Dreamgirls closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances
• 05 Aug 1985 Establishment of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is announced
• 06 Aug 1985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
• 07 Aug 1985 Barbra Streisand records Broadway Album
• 10 Aug 1985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13.11 miles.
• 11 Aug 1985 Tap Dance Kid closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 669 performances
• 12 Aug 1985 7th Emmy Sports Award presentation
• 15 Aug 1985 Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa
• 16 Aug 1985 Madonna weds Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
• 17 Aug 1985 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel and Co plant
• 18 Aug 1985 Muffin Spencer-Devlin wins MasterCard International Pro-Am Golf Tourn
• 20 Aug 1985 Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian / Egyptian gas workers
• 21 Aug 1985 New York Lotto pays $41 million to three winner (#s are 14-17-22-23-30-47)
• 22 Aug 1985 30th Walker Cup: US wins 13-11
• 23 Aug 1985 South African attorney / UDF leader Dulah Omar arrested
• 24 Aug 1985 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
• 25 Aug 1985 Met Dwight Goodin becomes youngest pitcher to win 20 games (20y 9m 9d)
• 26 Aug 1985 French government claims no knowledge of assault on Rainbow Warrior
• 27 Aug 1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I) - Discovery 6 - launched.
• 29 Aug 1985 Atlantis moves to launch pad for 51-J mission
• 31 Aug 1985 Prakas sets trotting mile record of 1:53.4 at Du Quoin, Illinois

Famous Birthday

• Anna Kendrick

  American actress.

• Pierre Sarkozy
• James Leroy Augustine Jagger
• Kayla Ewell

  TV Actress.

• Beatrice Borromeo
• Mustapha El Atrassi
• Yû Aoi
• Nicolás Almagro

  Spanish tennis player.

• Destiny Davis
• Explorer 5 (United States satellite)
• Bafétimbi Gomis

  French football/soccer player who plays as a striker for Premier League club Swansea City.

• Sara Giraudeau
• Wendy González
• Agnes Bruckner

  American actress.

• Ashlynn Brooke
• Dalia Hernández
• Liza Del Sierra
• Cristin Milioti

  Stage Actress.

• Harry Smith (wrester)
• Kina Grannis

  American musician.

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Famous Deaths

• Louise Brooks

  American dancer, actress, and movie historian (d. 1985).

• Taylor Caldwell

  American best-selling writer who began to write and illustrate from age 10.

• Theodore Sturgeon

  Sci-fi Author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67.

• Theodore Sturgeon

  Sci-fi Author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67.

• Ruth Gordon

  American actress from 1915; famous for playing eccentric characters, as in the wonderfully macabre comedy, "Harold and Maude.

• Richard Yardumian

  US Composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68.

• Paul Creston [Giuseppe / Joseph Guttoveggio]

  US composer, dies at 78.

• Joseph Walker

  cameraman, dies at age 92.

• Frank Faylen

  vaudevillian, dies at age 79 of pneumonia.

• Harchand Singh Longowai

  Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists.

• Clive Churchill

  Australian rugby league footballer (Born 1927).

• Forbes Burnham

  Guyanese visionary, 3rd President and 1st Prime Minister of Guyana (Born 1923).

• Don Whillans

  English rock climber and mountaineer (d. 1985).

• Patrick Barr

  Actor (Black Orchid, On the Run), dies at 77.

• Marion Martin

  Actress (Dakota Lil, Queen of Burlesque), dies at 67.

• Samantha Smith

  American activist/actress (Elizabeth - Lime Street), dies at age 13 (born 1972).

• Gale Sondergaard

  American actress, dies at cerebral vascular thrombosis (born 1899).

• Evelyn Ankers

  Actress (Black Beauty, Jungle Woman), dies at 67.

• Marcel Mihalovici

  Composer, dies at 86.

• Grayson Hall

  Actor (Dark Shadows), dies of cancer at 58.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Tears For Fears - Shout
2. Huey Lewis & The News - Power Of Love
3. Paul Young - Everytime You Go Away
4. John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)
5. Sting - If You Love Somebody Set Them Free

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Sister Sledge - Frankie
2. Madonna - Into The Groove
3. Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
4. UB40 featuring Chrissie Hynde - I Got You Babe
5. Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)